Michigan Supreme Court Rejects Attempts To Block Trump From Ballot
The Michigan Supreme Court has rejected efforts from far-left entities to sue to block former president and current GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump from Michigan’s 2024 election ballot.
The court announced the decision on Wednesday, declaring that they were rejecting efforts to remove Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment — which states that officials who take an oath to support the U.S. Constitution are barred from holding office in the future if they “engaged in insurrection.” Numerous far-left individuals and groups have filed lawsuits in states across the U.S. arguing that Trump’s actions during the January 6 Capitol protests fall under this rule, despite no evidence proving that the former president engaged in a so-called “insurrection.”
The Michigan Supreme Court judges did not appear swayed by the arguments in this case, instead ruling that Trump should stay on the ballot because they were not “persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed by this court” ahead of Michigan’s February 27 presidential primary.
Trump celebrated the decision in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, declaring that the court had “strongly and rightfully denied the Desperate Democrat attempt to take the leading Candidate in the 2024 Presidential Election, me, off the ballot in the Great State of Michigan.”
“This pathetic gambit to rig the Election has failed all across the Country, including in States that have historically leaned heavily toward the Democrats,” Trump added. “Colorado is the only State to have fallen prey to the scheme.”
Unlike in Michigan, Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled last week that Trump would be blocked from the state’s ballot, agreeing with the 14th Amendment argument despite the fact that Trump has not been convicted of anything related to an “insurrection.”
“A majority of the court holds that President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of President under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution,” the Colorado ruling read. “Because he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Colorado Secretary of State to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot.”
However, the Colorado Supreme Court did stay its ruling pending an appeal from Trump and his legal team, giving them time to do so before the ballots are printed in January.
